typist

At 15, she joined the Yorkshire Evening Post as a typist, but was soon taken on as a reporter.

She left school at 15 to work as a typist and copytaker on the Yorkshire Evening Post, and got her first stories into the newspaper’s pages by surreptitiously slipping them into the sub-editor’s tray.

“Using a small camera, the scanning machine takes pictures of the text and does electronically what a typist working a word processor does at a keyboard.”

I also became a very fast typist because I was in charge of taking field notes and sometimes I’d have three producers running on-the-fly interviews all at once.

It took the city 377 business days to approve a list of candidates for a clerk typist position and 362 calendar days for a position at the Long Beach port, he wrote.